President Barack Obama stepping on stage to sign an Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls at the White House on March 11. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)From International Herald Tribune:
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama rarely, if ever, uses the phrase "war on terror." Like presidents before him, he has a top-secret intelligence briefing every day, yet it is not necessarily first on his schedule. And when he sent 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, he announced the news in a written statement, not a public address.
As he heads toward his next big commander-in-chief moment — a decision on strategy for Afghanistan, possibly this week — Mr. Obama, by necessity and temperament, is wearing the role in ways distinctly different from his predecessor, George W. Bush.
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My Comment: President Bush always took the military very seriously. President Obama .... too early to say. I can only presume we will know the type of Commander of Chief that he is when a serious emergency occurs .... and only then.